To guide the provision of quality palliative care services across the African region, the African Palliative Care Association (APCA) has developed a framework of core palliative care competencies that can be used by service providers, educators and other stakeholders to guide programmes development. The competencies are developed based on the following principles: All patients have access to high-quality [...]
In education, as in other areas of clinical practice, the early experiences are very important in sending messages of enthusiasm for the subject, of its excitement, its place in medicine as a whole, and its value to patients and the public. Palliative care needs well-qualified leaders if it is to continue to grow and develop as a [...]
The standards are designed to allow the development or improvement of palliative care across the different services levels,within the organisational capacity of various service providers in Africa, according to WHO guidelines. DESCARGAR PDF
El ideal de la Medicina Paliativa está relacionado con tres cosas: la calidad de la vida, el valor de la vida y el significado de la vida. La calidad de la vida la da la liberación del dolor, del temor y de otros síntomas molestos y la calidad de cuidados. El valor de la [...]
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Los niños y adolescentes con expectativa de videa reducida son un grupo muy vulnerable al sufrimiento, en particular en los países pobres. Comprenderlos, tratar de satisfacer sus necesidades, controlar sus síntomas molestos, aliviar su sufrimiento y dar apoyo a las familias son las metas de los cuidados paliativos pediátricos y de este libro, que reune [...]
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